A few days ago I asked about the M-Audio Keystation Mini 32 and got good replies.
I used to be good at skimming manuals for the important stuff, but I lost some of the necessary control of my eye movements while having cataract problems. Not whining, only realising that I m less good a reading texts than I used to be. So I wanted to be sure I could find out about making a keyboard controller work with Finale before I invested ever so small a sum. Hence I dusted off my old controller which appeared to be an Oxygen8. Also found an old online manual, which scared me, as the driver should be placed in an OMS folder, which I remember about, but haven’t seen for years. However I also found a newer driver in form of an installer application. Which worked with current software and also found out about opening a port into Finale. Hurrah! So why asking again? Even if the 25 keys of the Oxygen8 lead to better productivity than the alphanumeric keyboard as an entry tool in Speedy, then I had to realise Chuck being right that 25 keys are insufficient. I found the alphanumeric keyboard less than intuitive. And so are the octave shifts necessitated by the instruments not fitting into two octaves from C through C. So I need more keys. Most brass instruments don’t use more than 3 octaves in the bulk of my work, but it takes 4 octaves to fit just about all brasses into any octave allocation without changing that allocation all the time. Now the question is about the best cut of quality, of small demands on space, and of course of price. I cannot do realtime entries, so sensing key velocities is not a main consideration. I found an Alesis Q49 at a fairly attractive price. Any experiences with that model? Klaus _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
